Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dugong Marsa Alam.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Aug 2010 at 20:01:47 (UTC)

Original - A dugong appears to be grazing

Edit - Highlight recovery and colour noise reduction.

Reason: A high quality and EV image. The little yellow fish next to it don't obstruct or hurt the quality of the image IMO but they show contrast so that, even though the image is underwater, we can see that the image doesn't have much of a blue-green refraction.
Articles in which this image appears: Dugong
FP category for this image: Animals/Mammals
Creator: Julien Willem

Support as nominator --I'ḏ ♥One 20:01, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The quality is good, but I can't help but think that a shot like this would be more useful as an infobox image. J Milburn (talk) 20:50, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it would be better to see the animal from the side, but Julien's photo is the best one we have on WP now. --I'ḏ ♥One 20:54, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's not really an argument in its favour. FPC is not about featuring the "best we currently have"- that would be more the domain of VPC, but especially the domain of Commons's valued images. J Milburn (talk) 20:58, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't nominate it just because it's WP's current best, I nominated it because I thought it was eye-catching, I liked how the photographer was apparently able to get as close as they did, because I think the image as is does a very good job illustrating the article it's about and because I consider myself pretty critical and was still impressed with the image's quality, such as its color, brightness and the luck of photoing the fish too, since fish tend to be skittish and swim away very fast when people or large animals get close to them, as far as I've seen. I think this actually does deserve recognition, or if not that for someone to upload or suggest something better, or the thoughts of those who see this photo. --I'ḏ ♥One 23:32, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support I like the angle, actually. ResMar 02:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment PapaLima, thanks, but the coloring isn't very different. --I'ḏ♥One 05:09, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, I couldn't do much for it - the blown parts are mostly pure white, but you should see the difference if you open the images in tabs and switch back and forth, it's obvious on the back of the animal; you should also notice the absence of green and blue splotches (and less noticeably, red and yellow) in the shadows - these are tell-tale signs of a cheap and/or compact camera, and have been difficult to remove for the "person on the street" (points at self) until Adobe put a very useable algorithm into Lightroom version 3 this year (I've said this before: I'm not on their payroll - yet ;) ). Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:10, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]